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PK Zippers self destruct (Announce)

posted by Guti , 31.08.2016, 08:23

Is this happening even with latest 2.50 versions?
I am myself running them under DOSBox, and no issues.
Maybe a kind of DOS malware?

> I'm not looking for a solution but
> both the old PKZIP and PKUNZIP
> programs at times self destruct on
> my new I5 system.
>
> When this happens the size of the
> program will be found to be 65535
> bytes. Yep.
>
> I placed an extra .SAV copy of each
> on my c:\ and in autoexec I copy the
> two SAV files over the EXEs which
> gets rid of the problem for me.
>
> Interesting day here.
>
> W3

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Complete thread:

• PK Zippers self destruct - w3a537, 31.08.2016, 06:23 (Announce)
  • PK Zippers self destruct - Guti, 31.08.2016, 08:23
    • PK Zippers self destruct - w3a537, 31.08.2016, 20:26
      • PK Zippers self destruct - RayeR, 02.09.2016, 11:51
        • PK Zippers self destruct - w3a537, 03.09.2016, 03:20
          • PK Zippers self destruct - w3a537, 03.09.2016, 03:23
            • PK Zippers self destruct - RayeR, 03.09.2016, 03:31
            • PK Zippers self destruct - Laaca, 03.09.2016, 20:41
            • PK Zippers self destruct - Rugxulo, 04.09.2016, 00:56
          • PK Zippers self destruct - tom, 03.09.2016, 09:29
            • PK Zippers self destruct - Brian_extended, 03.09.2016, 16:41
              • PK Zippers self destruct - tom, 03.09.2016, 19:21
      • PK Zippers self destruct - Doug, 09.09.2016, 06:46
        • PK Zippers self destruct - w3a537, 09.09.2016, 07:33
          • PK Zippers self destruct - w3a537, 09.09.2016, 07:38
            • PK Zippers self destruct - RayeR, 10.09.2016, 10:37
  • PK Zippers self destruct - Ninho, 10.09.2016, 10:40
  • PK Zippers self destruct - NOT BUG it checks PSP for PK sig - Arjay, 20.09.2016, 19:15
    • PK Zippers self destruct - NOT BUG it checks PSP for PK sig - Arjay, 20.09.2016, 19:28